Scattering characteristics of simplified cylindrical invisibility cloaks

@article{citeulike:2329489, abstract = {The previously reported simplified cylindrical linear cloak is improved so that the cloak’s outer surface is impedance-matched to free space. The scattering characteristics of the improved linear cloak is compared to the previous counterpart as well as the recently proposed simplified quadratic cloak derived from quadratic coordinate transformation. Significant improvement in invisibility performance is noticed for the improved linear cloak with respect to the previously proposed linear one. The improved linear cloak and the simplified quadratic cloak have comparable invisibility performances, except that the latter however has to fulfill a minimum shell thickness requirement (i.e. outer radius must be larger than twice of inner radius). When a thin cloak shell is desired, the improved linear cloak is much more superior than the other two versions of simplified cloaks.}, author = {Yan, Min and Ruan, Zhichao and Qiu, Min }, citeulike-article-id = {2329489}, journal = {Opt. Express}, keywords = {cloaking, metamaterial}, month = {December}, number = {26}, pages = {17772--17782}, posted-at = {2008-02-04 13:23:42}, priority = {2}, publisher = {OSA}, title = {Scattering characteristics of simplified cylindrical invisibility cloaks}, url = {http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?id=148469}, volume = {15}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2329489 TI - Scattering characteristics of simplified cylindrical invisibility cloaks JF - Opt. Express VL - 15 IS - 26 SP - 17772 EP - 17782 PB - OSA N2 - The previously reported simplified cylindrical linear cloak is improved so that the cloak’s outer surface is impedance-matched to free space. The scattering characteristics of the improved linear cloak is compared to the previous counterpart as well as the recently proposed simplified quadratic cloak derived from quadratic coordinate transformation. Significant improvement in invisibility performance is noticed for the improved linear cloak with respect to the previously proposed linear one. The improved linear cloak and the simplified quadratic cloak have comparable invisibility performances, except that the latter however has to fulfill a minimum shell thickness requirement (i.e. outer radius must be larger than twice of inner radius). When a thin cloak shell is desired, the improved linear cloak is much more superior than the other two versions of simplified cloaks. KW - cloaking KW - metamaterial AU - Yan, Min AU - Ruan, Zhichao AU - Qiu, Min PY - 2007/12/24/ UR - http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?id=148469 ER -